How do you concieve male twins?
By Christine Wendt
You don’t.
Were you hoping for some kind of folk-wisdom answer like eat licorice and have sex under the three-quarter moon in a bed of zucchini?
The reality is that in order to give assured birth to male twins you have to do a lot of messing around with modern medicine, plus a willingness to toss out or donate a lot of embryos.
First the woman has to have fertility treatments to produce lots of eggs. Then in vitro fertilization with the man’s sperm has to occur. As the fertilized ova begin to divide, you select the male blastocysts and toss or donate the girls. Do you want identical twins? It’s possible but more difficult — you have to induce an embryo to divide at just the right stage. Fraternal male twins will be easier.
Once you have viable male embryos, they have to be implanted into the mother's uterus. You may want to implant more than two, just in case. As a matter of fact, there are no guarantees at any of these stages.
So that is how you give birth to male twins. It’s complicated, expensive, may take several repetitions of the whole process, and is usually very unpleasant for the mother — the hormone cocktail that makes her ovaries cough up multiple eggs at once is not nice.
Were you hoping for some kind of folk-wisdom answer like eat licorice and have sex under the three-quarter moon in a bed of zucchini?
The reality is that in order to give assured birth to male twins you have to do a lot of messing around with modern medicine, plus a willingness to toss out or donate a lot of embryos.
First the woman has to have fertility treatments to produce lots of eggs. Then in vitro fertilization with the man’s sperm has to occur. As the fertilized ova begin to divide, you select the male blastocysts and toss or donate the girls. Do you want identical twins? It’s possible but more difficult — you have to induce an embryo to divide at just the right stage. Fraternal male twins will be easier.
Once you have viable male embryos, they have to be implanted into the mother's uterus. You may want to implant more than two, just in case. As a matter of fact, there are no guarantees at any of these stages.
So that is how you give birth to male twins. It’s complicated, expensive, may take several repetitions of the whole process, and is usually very unpleasant for the mother — the hormone cocktail that makes her ovaries cough up multiple eggs at once is not nice.
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